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Coming: The Purple Tomato

Purple tomatoes -- genetically modified to be rich in the beneficial pigments found in "superfoods" -- could soon be on sale in the U.S., if a small company called Norfolk Plant Sciences gets approval from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.  In one experiment, mice given purple tomato powder lived nearly 30% longer than mice on a standard diet.

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